July 2008 - a pile of .... dodgy manure

Thankfully we escaped this but many people's crops were ruined.

1 July 2008

Planted more carrots, dug up the radish and beetroot bed that hadn't been successful replanted the bed with more beetroot, pak choi, butterhead lettuce, oakleaf lettuce, rocket, mooli, spring onions, and baby carrots (Amsterdam).

5 July 2008

Shallots harvested (dried in sun and pickled) and bed replanted with: turnips, chicory, swede. Planted marigolds and sowed nasturtium seeds at the ends of rows. Transplanted more tomatoes and mange tout.

12 July 2008

Planted cabbages.

20 July 2008



Potatoes needed feeding (hence the yellow leaves) but they are still tasting good, which is the main thing! We are continuing to get a good crop of mangetout and chard,the strawberries are still fruiting, the melons are in flower and our very first courgettes are appearing.

A bumper crop of dwarf green beans (we hadn't realised they were growing until we inspected below the leaves!)and the fennel is ready to harvest. It went very nicely with a lovely bit of white fish:



26 July 2008

By the end of July we had dug up most of the maincrop potatoes so replanted the area with leeks for the Winter, turnips, chicory and swede. We also put in some more potatoes and black French beans in the hope that we may get some late ones. We were still picking beans, courgettes, strawberries, fennel, rhubarb (ahh that longed for rhubarb crumble!) and we dug up the remaining Anya salad potatoes.

And so our late Summer allotment plan was looking more like this (click to enlarge):